Looking for u

[hrant]

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I'm looking for fonts that have a /u sort of like this:

Sans is OK too.

hhp

[clauses]

http://www.emigre.com/OT/Triplex-Italic

[hrant]

Ah, yes! Any others?

hhp

[daverowland]

This is from an unfinished one of mine I might get round to some day!

[hrant]

Cool.
1) What made you make that shape?
2) Does it have an italic?

hhp

[daverowland]

1) I thought I'd try to do a text face influenced by the marks you might get with a fat marker pen. I never actually used a marker pen so it's kind of an imagined result. All the rounds from stems (b, d, p, q, r, m, n, a) have the same straight bit going to a curve.
2) It barely has a roman, but it will have an italic at some point. I've got a new script font almost done then I might make this the next one I get round to, so it'll probably be in the critique section soon.

That e needs some work!

[Riccardo Sartori]

How abrupt the diagonal/curve transition should be?
Aldus Roman sports something similar, but more ink-trap than blackletter (italic is all curves, though).

[Riccardo Sartori]

This one has a similar construction on U too: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/protimient/pasquinade/

[hrant]

I like that "e" actually (just make the eye larger).

Pasquinade: Nice.

hhp

[Té Rowan]

Omnibus Type's Chivo and Rosario have a 'u' resembling this if a lot more rounded. I think Vollkorn is in that ballpark as well.

[hrant]

I'm not seeing that form in any of those at all.

hhp

[Té Rowan]

Not the exact form, but I'm sure you noted that the tail on Chivo's 'u' looks quite like the bottom curve. That's the similarity I saw, oh, and the raised tail in the others. ATM I recall none near that harsh form you drew.

[Riccardo Sartori]

Reynir, I think what Hrant is looking for is the peculiar shape of the bottom left, where the curve joins the diagonal.
(as an irrelevant bit of info, I fiddled with the same concept on a number of experimentations in fontstruction)

[Té Rowan]

And that is the shape I do not recall seeing elsewhere, but there is another characteristic there: Tail resembling bottom curve.

[hrant]

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/dstype/quaestor/italic/

hhp

[sim]

> Hrant: here one of the mine : http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/psyops/harfang-pro/

[hrant]

Nice one.

hhp